Sep 8, 2018 · 1 min read
Yes, this is the point.
For a brief time, in the 1960s, people saw it clearly in relation to issues of race and America’s abominable treatment of black people and other minorities. There wasn’t a quick fix and the conviction and determination to address it waned and a new determination arose to reestablish a society based on property and privilege.
Instead of dealing with oppression we have extended it to a new underclass including poorer white people. The ways of Mississippi — reprehensible white boys running everything from backrooms — are now the ways of Washington, re-creating a society based on exclusion, exploitation and cruelty:
